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Here is a quick summary of my specs:
Aperture 3.0.3 on Mac Mini Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz with 4GB RAM
Aperture Library - ~ 200GB managed library
The issue: I have recently started shooting more RAW than JPEG and when I am simply previewing the files in a window, it is taking at least 1-2 seconds for the photo to load. I have always had "slowness" with some of the brushes etc. I JUST did the whole defrag thing last night in hopes of screaming performance but it didn't happen.
Anybody else finding similar issue with similar hardware?? I am tempted to get the new iMac, but will be pi$$ed if it has the same issues....
Thanks,
Erik

Late 2009 Mini, 2.6 GHz, 4GB RAM, 500 GB HD, 150 GB Managed library.
If I bring up an image and then just step through the library, it will take between 1 and 5 seconds to load the image; less for JPEG more for 100 MB TIFF (And I have lots of scanned slides.)
That is about the slowest thing I do. Brushes will take a second or two to take effect, but then are fast thereafter. I usually have Safari and Mail running at the same time. Popping up a hundred thumbs is happens about as fast as I can scroll.
Frankly, I have been amazed at the performance of this little box.
Granted, I tend to run iDefrag after every major upload of images.
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